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To communicate at the nanoscale, researchers have proposed molecular communication as an energy-efficient solution. The drawback to this solution is that the histogram of the molecules' hitting times, which constitute the molecular signal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Nafi Ahmet Turgut , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Chan-Byoung Chae , Tuna Tugcu , Ali Emre Pusane

Molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is a method of achieving nano- and micro-scale connectivity by utilizing the free diffusion mechanism of information molecules. The randomness in diffusive propagation is the main cause of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Mustafa Can Gursoy , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Ali Emre Pusane , Tuna Tugcu

Nano-scale molecular communication is a viable way of exchanging information between nano-machines. In this letter, a low-complexity and non-coherent signal detection technique is proposed to mitigate the inter-symbol-interference (ISI) and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Bin Li , Mengwei Sun , Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Chenglin Zhao

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop a symbol synchronization framework for molecular communication (MC) systems where we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

In molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD), the inter-symbol interference (ISI) is a well known severe problem that deteriorates both data rates and link reliability. ISI mainly occurs due to the slow and highly random propagation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Yae Jee Cho , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Weisi Guo , Chan-Byoung Chae

In the domain of molecular communication (MC), information is conveyed through the characteristics of molecules transmitted between the transmitter and the receiver bionanosensors via propagation. The constrained size of the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dongliang Jing , Linjuan Li , Lin Lin , Andrew W. Eckford

In this work, we investigate the communication reliability for diffusion-based molecular communication, using the indicator of bit error rate (BER). A molecular classified model is established to divide molecules into three parts, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Peng He , Yuming Mao , Qiang Liu , Kun Yang

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop several symbol synchronization schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems where we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

This paper focuses on molecular communication (MC) systems using two types of signaling molecules which may participate in a reversible bimolecular reaction in the channel. The motivation for studying these MC systems is that they can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

This paper explores the Achievable Information Rate (AIR) of a diffusive Molecular Communication (MC) channel featuring a fully absorbing receiver that counts the absorbed particles during symbol time intervals (STIs) and resets the counter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Fardad Vakilipoor , Luca Barletta , Stefano Bregni , Maurizio Magarini

Molecular communication suffers from severe inter-symbol interference, which makes constrained coding essential for reliable transmission. Run-length-limited ISI-mitigation codes are attractive because they select low-weight constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Melih Şahin , Ozgur B. Akan

In mobile molecular communication (MC), inter-symbol interference (ISI) can be mitigated by power control, requiring accurate estimates of the distance from transmitter to receiver. We present two power control strategies based on binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Dongliang Jing , Yongzhao Li , Andrew W. Eckford

Molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is considered as one of the most feasible communication paradigms for nanonetworks, especially for bio-nanonetworks which are usually in water-rich biological environments. Two effects that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Ruifeng Zheng , Lin Lin , Hao Yan

This paper focuses on molecular communication (MC) systems where the signaling molecules may participate in a reversible bimolecular reaction in the channel. The motivation for studying these MC systems is that they can realize the concept…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Vahid Jamali , Nariman Farsad , Robert Schober , Andrea Goldsmith

In diffusion-based communication, as for molecular systems, the achievable data rate is low due to the stochastic nature of diffusion which exhibits a severe inter-symbol-interference (ISI). Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 S. M. Reza Rouzegar , Umberto Spagnolini

Diffusive molecular communications (DiMC) have recently gained attention as a candidate for nano- to micro- and macro-scale communications due to its simplicity and energy efficiency. As signal propagation is solely enabled by Brownian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

In emerging Internet-of-Nano-Thing (IoNT), information will be embedded and conveyed in the form of molecules through complex and diffusive medias. One main challenge lies in the long-tail nature of the channel response causing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo , Bin Li , Jerome Charmet , Chenglin Zhao

This work introduces the particle-intensity channel (PIC) as a model for molecular communication systems and characterizes the properties of the optimal input distribution and the capacity limits for this system. In the PIC, the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Nariman Farsad , Christopher Rose , Muriel Médard , Andrea Goldsmith

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication technique that uses molecules to transfer information among bio-nano devices. In this paper, we focus on the detection problem for biological MC receivers employing ligand…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Murat Kuscu , Ozgur B. Akan

In molecular communications, the direct detection of signaling molecules may be challenging due to a lack of suitable sensors and interference in the environment. Motivated by research in molecular biology, we investigate an indirect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Trang Ngoc Cao , Vahid Jamali , Wayan Wicke , Phee Lep Yeoh , Nikola Zlatanov , Jamie S Evans , Robert Schober